A confident stance on ‘otherness’

“An uncanny digital pedagogy concerned with ghostliness of place would take a confident stance toward its own ‘otherness’, using the multiple, disaggregated and public nodes of the read–write web as places to conduct its business.” (Bayne, 8).

I aggressively and with some degree of (perhaps misplaced) confidence, I construct my learning spaces. Multiple tools, formats, disquiet, utility, all torn with rough strife towards learning of some sort. I assemble them, deconstruct them with ease and regularity and look to embrace the liminality of border crossings and boundary renegotiation. The only way out is through and that is essentially an embrace of the disquiet and disorientation of not knowing what one is doing. I am reminded of this embrace of disorientation when I think of the following Winston Churchill quote: